BBC AMERICA’S COPPER CLOSES OUT THE SEASON WITH A BANG – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 10:00PM ET/PT

With NYC’s future hanging in the balance, friendships will end and traitors will be revealed

New York – Tuesday, October 9, 2012 – BBC AMERICA’s first original scripted series, COPPER, which delivered the channel’s highest rated series premiere ever, is building to an explosive finale that will change lives and New York City forever. With Confederate terrorists threatening to destroy the city as they know it, unexpected traitors will be revealed and once air-tight bonds will be broken beyond repair. The gripping drama – filled with intrigue, corruption, mystery and murder – will close its record-breaking season with Detective Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones) giving everything he has to protect his town from the terrorist attack he knows is coming. From award-winning executive producers Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson and Will Rokos, the season-finale of COPPER bows Sunday, October 21, 10:00pm ET/PT.

The series began with Corcoran’s search for answers after returning from the Civil War to find his daughter murdered and wife Missing. Assisted by partner and friend, Detective Francis Maguire (Kevin Ryan) and Detective Andrew O’Brien (Dylan Taylor), Corcoran seeks justice for the powerless as a way of dealing with the injustice of his own loss. His friendship with two Civil War compatriots – Robert Morehouse (Kyle Schmid), the wayward son of a wealthy industrialist and African-American Doctor Matthew Freeman (Ato Essandoh), who secretly assists Corcoran with his work – takes him to the contrasting worlds of elegant Fifth Avenue and Northern Manhattan.

In the season finale, Corcoran teams up with Robert Morehouse and the coppers of the Sixth Precinct to thwart a brazen terrorist attack on New York City by Confederate soldier’s intent on watching the city burn. With his personal life in shambles, his closest friendship in pieces and the truth finally uncovered about his daughter’s death, Corcoran must set aside his inner turmoil to save the city he vehemently protects. Meanwhile, betrayal runs deep as Morehouse learns just how entangled his father has become with his new business associates. Madam Eva Heissen (Franka Potente) and Aristocrat Elizabeth Haverford (Anastasia Griffith) find themselves in unexpected positions, while in Carmansville, Doctor Matthew Freeman makes a dangerous decision in defending his wife.

Created and executive produced by Emmy®-winner Tom Fontana (Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, Borgia), Academy Award®-nominee Will Rokos (Monster’s Ball, Southland) and executive produced by Academy Award®-winner Barry Levinson (Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man, You Don’t Know Jack) and Cineflix Studios President, Christina Wayne (Broken Trail and executive in charge of Mad Men),COPPER is BBC AMERICA’s first original scripted drama. The show brought the network’s highest ratings for a series premiere with 1.8 million viewers tuning in.

In addition to COPPER, BBC AMERICA is also the home of groundbreaking dramas: Golden Globe® and Emmy® nominated mini-series The Hour, Luther, starring Golden Globe®-winner Idris Elba, and the new upcoming co-productions Spies of Warsaw and Ripper Street.